This is an analysis of the poem Tales Of A Wayside Inn : Part 1. The Musician's Tale; The Saga Of King Olaf V. -- The Skerry Of Shrieks that begins with:

Now from all King Olaf's farms
His men-at-arms... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb ddedde ffghhg aaXccX fXijjX kXjggj ffjllj mmfnnf nnbjjb oobffX ffeffi Xobccb ppkffk oojddj ddfoof kXXccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011101 0111 10101010 0011101 111 10001010 1010111 101 00101010 1010111 101 100011010 1110001 1001 10011110 1110111 111 01111110 1010111 011 11101010 10110111 0101 101100010 1010111 01000 10101111 1001111 111 01101111 1011101 11010 10101110 1011101 0101 11111010 1011101 1101 10111010 10011101 1001 10111010 0110111 1101 10101110 0110101 0101 01101010 1110111 101 10100010 1010011 1001 11101010 1010101 0101 10111010 011101 0101 10101010 1010111 1111 10101010 0010101 101 11111011 1010101 101 00101010 1011101 101 100101110 0011101 111 100101010 1010101 111 10101110 1110101 101 10101010 1011111 0101 00101010 1110101 101 10101110 1010101 101 10100010 1111101 11010 11101011 1010101 11001 11111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; me is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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